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9:58 a.m. Saturday: Kofi von Lersner, 4, of Denver, watches from his place in line two minutes before the opening of the Denver Art Museum's new Hamilton building. Final attendance was 33,755 for the weekend, and while the majority were visitors to the new addition, about 20 percent visited the original museum building only.
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Almost 34,000 visitors thronged the Denver Art Museum’s 35-hour opening of the Frederic C. Hamilton Building. The large weekend crowds resulted in the museum running out of free tickets to enter the new $110 million wing less than 24 hours into the event.
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 See three years of construction squeezed into three minutes in a narrated timelapse.Video
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Facts and figures
Materials: Titanium and glass. The addition will use 2,740 tons of steel, 230,000 square feet of titanium and 7,400 cubic yards of concrete.
About the architect
Name: Daniel LibeskindBorn: 1946 in Poland
Other projects: Jewish Museum Berlin, World Trade Center site, Imperial War Museum.
Layout
 Cross-sectionA floor-by-floor look at the new wing. Full view
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The Museum's Frederic C. Hamilton Building opened Wednesday in a special preview for volunteers. 
Architect Daniel Libeskind and News art critic Mary Chandler tour the finished building. 
Libeskind tours the site in March 2005.
Watch workers hoist the 13th Avenue bridge in November 2004.
Take a video tour of the DAM construction site in September 2004.
Size: The prow of the museum's new wing, which extends over 13th Avenue, will reach a height of more than 100 feet. 
